We’re back with another edition of things you might want to read and watch this weekend.

Off the bat, in case you missed Tim Hanlon of TVREV taking broadcasters to the woodshed over plans to turn “NexGen TV” (also known as ATSC 3.0) into anything and seemingly everything but the new and improved version of HDTV that was originally promised, you should definitely check out this article.

In fact, TVREV.com is now on our “must subscribe” list for television news professionals as a regular read to keep up with the larger issues facing the entire business of television. As their masthead promises, they deliver on “The Future of Television. Dissected Daily.”

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One of America’s most interesting companies has to be Tesla. Whatever you may think of founder Elon Musk’s political and personal lives, the fact that the company that made electric vehicles legitimate was worth more than Ford, Toyota and GM combined is no small accomplishment. Now the company faces a “brain drain” that is not all that dissimilar to what has been happening in the television news business. Patrick Brown chronicles the current crisis for The Atlantic magazine and his latest article is a fascinating read.

Speaking of Tesla, we want to introduce you to one Andrej Karpathy. He is the former senior director of Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. Before that, he was one of the founders of Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT. So yes, he is, as anyone from Boston might say “wicked smart." Just last week, we experienced Tesla’s AI-powered FSD or “Full Self Driving” mode for the first time. This was while driving on a three-hour trip across California. Candidly, we would describe the experience as impressive to the point of almost seeming magical. When the guy who was behind that, now wants to teach us how “software is changing…again”, we are definitely interested in what he has to say.

Karpathy’s recent keynote at at event called the “AI Startup School” is now available to watch on YouTube. We will warn you that it is a deep dive into a subject that maybe only true geeks might love. But it is a fascinating look into what the future of computer software in the age of artificial intelligence will probably look like, so maybe give it a few minutes to see if it is for you.

But if that is just too heavy a watch for your weekend, let us give you a different recommendation for something “completely different.” We loved the first three seasons of HBO Max’s comedy “Hacks” starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. But the recently released fourth season is a brilliant behind-the-scenes look at the television business through the premise of launching a late-night TV talk show by a veteran stand-up comedian and her creative writing partner. It’s funny and even poignant at times, but also insightful on the forces at work in the process of producing television. Highly recommended.

Above all, we definitely recommend that you have a great and enjoyable weekend. See you back here next week.